Because it's their home.
It's a damned shame, Russia and Ukraine could have had a mutually beneficial and fruitful fraternal relationship, and patched up history's wounds, like France and Germany, if not for that asshole, Putin. Of course, Biden practically invited him to invade.
“Because it’s their home.”
Spare us the assinine rhetoric.
This is a war/conflict so drop your brain to the level of thinking strategically and tactically instead of just vomiting rhetoric, yeah?
If you can’t do that, go back to playing RISK.....
You have things precisely backwards. Putin had friendly relations with Ukraine for many years. What changed? It was the Western coup and seizure of Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainians need to kick the West out and remind themselves Moscow is their neighbor, and that's not going to change. The leader of Russia is irrelevant. (If Putin drops dead today nothing will change in Russian policy, because this has nothing to do with him personally, despite the usual Western elite propaganda.)
I wouldn’t expect Ukrainians to ever forgive Russia (Stalin) for starving 3+ million of their family to death.
In the American civil war, Southern men were lost in the hundred’s of thousands. Most did not own slaves.
Why did they fight?
It was their home.